Meacham v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1964 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Potter v. Couch (1891)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We repeat, the mere fact that the cestui que trust has the entire beneficial interest in the trust estate is no test in determining whether the beneficial interest is a trust or a use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crow v. Crow
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.